Toaster



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TOASTER Filed Oct. 18 1923 2 Sheets-Shree?l 1 mvenmm Patented June 8,y 1926.4

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. LINDEMAN N AND EDWIN A. RUTNBER, F MILWAUKEE, WISCDNSIN, AS-

` SIGNORST AMT. LINDEMANN & HOVERSON COMPANY, 0F MILWAUKEE, WISCON- SIN, A CORPORATION or WISCONSIN.

'roAs'i'ER Application led v''ctober 18, 1923. Serial No. 669,217.

f The improvements relate to devices for toasting bread and other articles and more particularly devices of this kind in which an elect-ric Iheating element is employed.

I They may beI utilized however, for any purpose to which they are adapted.

In\devices of this character it is common to provide a carrier for the toast or lother article provided'with means for causing the reversal of the article when the carrier is moved outwardly and in an upward, downward or sidewise direction, the reversing means usually being connected with lthe part of the carrier which is movably ll connected with the frame of the device and also with some other part, so as to operate on the article in connection with the movement of the main carrier so as to cause its reversal; or the carrier is so mount- !0 ed that it holds the article in a fixed position with respect thereto and is itself reversed. Both these constructions are more or less complex and involve movable connections'and the co-operative arrangement of parts, which render the device liable to become broken or get out of adjustment. This is due largely to the fact that toasters land the like are usually operated by unskilled and even careless persons. The objects of the present improvements are among others, to provide means for reversing the article and presenting first one side and then the lother to the heating medium without having any movably connected 86 parts included in the reversing means, and

to rovide an extremely simple and depen able construction for this purpose.

The improvements are illustrated in t-he accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front view of al toaster embodying the improvements with the door in closed position, and partly broken away; Fig. 2 is a plan thereof; Fig. 3 is an end elevation with one door open and the other closed; and

FigAis a vertical cross section of the same,

substantially on the line L1---4, of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated arrows in that figure.

The main frame of the toaster comprises a base 1,\ upright end portions 2 and 3, and a top or cover 4 supported thereon. The base has a platform that is mounted thereon and extending from sideto side, the said platform having downwardly sloping slides,

by the and supporting the electric heating element 5. The upper edgeof this element is supported by a bracket 7 dependent from the under side ot the top.

On either side of the end frames, and extending across the device from side to side bars 8 and 9 are mounted, and on these bars the outwardly and downwardly opening doors 10 and 11 are hinged. An outwardly and downwardly inclined toaster support 12 is also hinged to each of these bars, preferably by having-its outer edge turned around the bar so as to connect it securely, and at the same time permit it to have plvotal movement thereon. The upper and inner ed es of these inclined supports rest against te upright bars 13 of the grid between the hea-tmg element and the door, the bars 13 being secured to the base and passing through the bracket 7 at the top. The inclination of the outwardly and downwardly inclined support 12 may be variedI to adapt it to any particular use, and it may consist of a plate, or of a series of bars, or other construction. The edges of the end members2and3are formed so that the edge of the support 12 intermediate its ends is outside them. This permits the su port to be moved,-if desired by means o a fork or other article insertible between it and the said end bars, even when hot, for the purpose of removing crumbs or oscillating 1t to cause the article which is being toasted or broiled to slide oil' on the door, in caseit should for any reason fail to slide oi by gravity.

It will be noted that the lower edge of the toast is spaced slightly from the bars n13, when in toasting position. This not only prevents it from sticking to the bars, as when buttered toast is being toasted, but causes it to gravitate more readily when the door is opened. The wires or strands 14 of the heating `element are closer to each other at the bottom, so thatwhile the toast is spaced more from the element at the bottom, it is subjected to substantially the same heat radiation.

In operation the toast or other article is placed on the door 11 and-the door turned upwardly and closed. This brings the article to the position indicated at the left in Figs. 3 and 4, with its lower edge resting on the beveled support 12. When it is desired 'toasted side down, as indicated in Fig. 4.

To present the opposite side to the heating element it is now only necessary to close the door again, this movement turnin the toast up to its toastingr position, Wit the opposite or untoasted side exposed to the heat.

What we clamis: A In a device of the character described, the combination of a grate disposed in a plane approximately parallel with an upright 'port for articles to be toaste heating element, of a laterall dis osed supsuc as slices of bread, said Jsupport extending outwardly and downwardly, and means for holding the article to be toasted in upright position opposite said grate, saidmeans being disconnected from dand operating independently of the said support.

Witness our hands this 13th day of October, 1923, at the city of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee. State of Wisconsin. WALTER C. LINDEMANN. EDWIN ARUTENBER. 

